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Persona 4: The Ultimate In Mayonaka Arena Vids Straight From Tokyo’s Arcade Show

By Spencer . September 16, 2011 . 5:45pm

Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena was playable at Tokyo Game Show, but considerably more accessible next door at the Amusement Machine Expo. That’s where these videos are from.

 

 

 

The meter at the bottom of the screen keeps track of your SP, which is used for magic spells in the Persona universe. Each kick, sword slash or fan in the face increases the meter. Super attacks are based on Persona 4 too. Chie uses God Hand (seen above!) as one of her moves. Yu (the main character) has Ziodyne. Yosuke has Garudyne and Yukiko has Agidyne. To get a better feel for Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena I played through the demo four times and we’ll share those impressions soon.

Persona 4: The Ultimate In Mayonaka Arena Vids Straight From Tokyos Arcade Show


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  • http://tristsantithesis.tumblr.com/ Tsunayoshi Sawada

    Almost expected Akihiko or Jin to bust out any moment, hopefully they shall be unlockable. Even in this quality the visuals looks stunning, thanks for the video.

  • Fonic

    Looks great. More RPGs need spin-off fighting games like this.

    • Gatchaman1

      Dragon Quest would be nice

      • http://twitter.com/#!/Leafy_Cam Leafhopper

        That would be a lot of characters.

      • Fonic

        Definitely. I’d also love to see a better Tales fighting game, a Wild Arms one, and maybe a Tri-Ace mash-up. Star Ocean vs Valkyrie Profile vs Radiata Stories etc.

  • DanteJones

    I can just barely make out the music in both videos, but not quite. Guess we’re gonna have to wait a bit for the OST or something. From what I can see it looks pretty cool, very reminiscent of Blazblue which is a good thing. :D

    • mikanko

      Most of the vids I’ve been watching the BB Extend machines drown out the P4U sounds :(

      • DanteJones

        Yeah… :( I need to hear the music! There could be a sick remix of Reach Out To the Truth for all we know!

  • sirfratley

    It looks like a Jojos Bizarre Adventure clone combined with gameplay from the blaz blue series and the Persona 4 Greatness!!!! I hope that atlus publish this in NA.

    • MrSirFeatherFang

      I have started reading Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure… still in the 1st part with Jonathan though… I dunno what I find in Jotaro, but I am excited to get up his part (or as I hear, Jotaro appears in 4 parts!). Actually the first Jojo related thing I ever saw was Jotaro vs Dio. (I think it was some OVA). Still I look forward when I get to Jotaro’s part
      I also thought of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure when first I heard about this, but only in similarities of the Stands and Personae. But I haven’t personally played the 2D fighter either :(

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Wayne-LaBranch/100002132711844 Wayne LaBranch

        Jotaro Saga is Part 3 actually and the way the Persona 4 Fighter plays like, its similar to the Jojo fighter which isn’t surprising with the stands and Personas being similar (expect the stands are more crazy badass and with their awesome names like…Mr. President 8D)

  • JustThisOne

    Yosuke plays like a dream. Or maybe everyone can do that.

  • http://twitter.com/ifarah12 Gren

    ugh the video player that always has a buttload of ads

    On topic though Kanji’s win animation is so freaking great

  • NaruKami

    Looks great! As a fan of Guilty Gear and BlazBlue, I feel like this will feel just as awesome, especially since it’s Shin Megami Tensei related!

  • Guest

    This game makes no sense to me, why make a fighter out of an rpg starring high school kids?

    • JustThisOne

      Hahaha, well, why make a fighter with Voldo in it? :P

      (No offense to Voldo. You’re a cool guy.)

      • Guest

        Voldo makes a lot of sense, a blind SM fetish guy has to know some tricks, but a high school kid?

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Wayne-LaBranch/100002132711844 Wayne LaBranch

          they’re high school kids who can summon inner spirits to fight…if you can’t see that as a fighter.

          1. You never played Jojo Bizarre Adventure
          2. You have no imagination

    • http://twitter.com/#!/kaishou Kaishou

      How long you been playing games for? NO GAMES MAKE NO SENSE!

      • gustave154

        i see what you did there xD
        you said no games make no sense, so all games makes sense =)

        • http://twitter.com/#!/kaishou Kaishou

          hohoho

    • http://myfigurecollection.net/collection/ashgail Ashgail

      I assume you’ve never heard of Nitro Royale: Heroines’ Duel and Aquapazza. Why make a fighter out of Visual Novel characters which doesn’t have any magic aside from their bust size? XD

      To make matters simple, just enjoy it. Questions will lead to more questions.

      • Dokurochan

        it does make sense to make those two games. I’ll give you that the ToHearts characters in Aquapazza are weird but not the Utawarerumono or Tears to Tiara characters because in their original VN most of them actually do fight.

        Seeing as how almost all Nitro+ VN are filled with action scenes with herorines who actually know how to kick butt so them making a fighting game is understandable. Nitro+ also use supernatural elements a lot and they do love their lolis so you saying that there is only big breasted girls with no magic in Nitro Royale, well Al Azif and Another Blood says hi.

    • http://twitter.com/Megawarrior345 Elle

      Did you really just ask that question? lol

    • MrSirFeatherFang

      Because I am Kuma

    • http://twitter.com/#!/Leafy_Cam Leafhopper

      That’s like asking: “Why is corn yellow?”

    • http://whatistheexcel.com/ Excel-2012

      Pandering.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_472QBVARRYERRGHATSUGCVCTTA Ian

      are you hate high school kids?

    • http://www.facebook.com/Chrome.Cell Bernard Yanga

      My answer is that your a COD fanboy?

    • Exkaiser

      Because everyone in Japan loves Melty Blood.

    • http://talesattbokmph.wordpress.com/ Setsuryuu (TBOkmph)

      High schoolers doing pretty much anything (including fighting, police work or altering the fundamental bases of the universe) is commonplace in japanese games and media in general. In
      the original RPG they already did a lot o fight (I suppose, since I only
      played P3) so to put them and their magical Personas in a fighter is
      much at the bottom of my “most nonsense stuff I ever saw”. If you went to the point of question that from all things I just hope you are also unable to sleep at night wondering whether or not Blanka makes any sense.

      By the way, Sun Woo, you
      better never see Rival Schools.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_472QBVARRYERRGHATSUGCVCTTA Ian

    Looks great!!!
    this maybe out of topic but they summoning persona without glasses now is it because true ending?? *little spoiler* :P

    • https://www.facebook.com/tlee1027 Tommy Lee

      They didn’t need the glasses to summon their personas. They needed the glasses so they could see through the fog.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_472QBVARRYERRGHATSUGCVCTTA Ian

        I see i thought glasses needed to summon persona not just to see through the fog
        hmm that’s why aigis the only p3 character in here?  

        • Exkaiser

          It never comes up because there’s never an opportunity for them to summon their personae without the glasses, but considering that they receive their Persona without their glasses, we can assume they aren’t related.

          • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_472QBVARRYERRGHATSUGCVCTTA Ian

            haha when i said “aigis the only p3 character in here” it means when other p3 char summon their persona they can’t match up speed of summoning p4 char because they have to use evoker to summon except aigis oh yeah and koromaru :3 as for p3 MC the super will be to awesome *ahem* fusion spell and multi weapon

        • http://twitter.com/#!/Leafy_Cam Leafhopper

          Its not an Arksys game without a robot. So why the hell not?

          In all actuality I don’t know why she is in there.

        • mikanko

          When interviewed they’ve said they’ll explain Aigis inclusion in the story mode, and that it plays a sizable role.

  • http://twitter.com/JezzSan Jezzy
  • AzureNova

    Mayonaka is going to God Hand a lot of other fighting games ^_^

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Wayne-LaBranch/100002132711844 Wayne LaBranch

      I get it 8D

    • http://twitter.com/#!/Leafy_Cam Leafhopper

      A golden fist is going to fist other games. Oww. Sounds painful ;~;

      • AzureNova

        Lolz

  • http://strictlyapathy.comoj.com/ SoulArbiter

    Looking pretty awesome! The concept of the purpose of the meter to govern the fighter’s Persona is what makes this ASW produced fighter stand out amongst BlazBlue and Guilty Gear.

  • Scratch90

    Looks like in the character selection menu we’ll just can change the color of personas only. Kinda hoping that we can switch between initial and ultimate persona for that character.

    I just want to hear the explaination of Yu/Souji Izanagi though from Atlus. Is the “true” ending never happened?

    • haqua

      No. Chie’s outfit was being changed as well, the dude playing jus changed it back. Her sweater was yellow and her skirt was red. (Which looked pretty nice IMO.)

      • Fitzkrieg

        She also had white hair and a tan.

        I’m okay with this.

  • glemtvapen

    Kanji vs Yukiko…
    http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/1316056150?via=thumb_watch

    Suffice to say, it will be fun beating people up with a folding chair.
    KANJIIIIIIIII!!!

    • papuruka

      GET BENT GET BENT GET BENT

  • mikanko

    It’s actually been hinted that the some of the remaining characters might be originals since it is continuing the plot to P4. My guess is uh, maybe an antagonist who isn’t there just for bad puns.  I kinda doubt there’ll be another P3 character outside Aegis.

    Lot of videos floating around and it looks every bit as awesome as I could hope.

    Kanji’s winning pose is the best thing I’ve seen this week in new games stuff.

    • http://myfigurecollection.net/collection/ashgail Ashgail

      I was hoping we’d get more P3 characters, however if they’re continuing the canon, it’d be a bit difficult. What made Yu came back to Inaba? Why did Yukiko’s playstyle interest me? Why did Kanji looked so buff in the gameplay videos? Why does this game interest me so much? Why can’t I hear the music from the video? WHYYYY???

      • mikanko

        He couldn’t resist Kuma/Teddy’s invite when cosplayed as M. Bison/Vega. 

        He’s been working his biceps sewing hardcore.

        Because it is the best.

        The Blazblue Extend machines are on too loud and there are more of them!

        • http://myfigurecollection.net/collection/ashgail Ashgail

          You…you…you’re good! When this game releases, we should fight.. Like gentlemen.

    • http://talesattbokmph.wordpress.com/ Setsuryuu (TBOkmph)

      I’m inclined to agree, which is very sad, I was very much hyped to see how Mitsuru Kirijo could be portrayed. Or just seing them making that Persona summom with the shot to the head… Got to keep hoping until the end for at least as a DLC I guess… (it also seems I might need to find time to play P4, I’ve only played the P3 so far and it’s unfortunate for me that only it’ss sucessor is getting so many things like the anime also now).

      • mikanko

        Well the game won’t be in arcades till Spring(if you’re lucky enough to live in Asia where arcade operators can pay for the service necessary to play their machines), and it won’t be on console till Summer…

        So you’ve got plenty of time to play P4!  Which is honestly worth the time if you enjoyed P3, regardless of this game coming out.

  • Xerain

    All I want is to finally be able to play as Rise.

    • JhonnyNNY

      jaja, Rise? but why? i mean she is not exactly a fighter ..

      • http://whatistheexcel.com/ Excel-2012

        So what’s the problem?

        • JhonnyNNY

          well, that , i mean , how do you expect her to fight? with her japanese seiyuu voice perhaps?

          • Xerain

            She can pole dance.

          • JhonnyNNY

            oh .. i kinda like the idea now :F , jaja

    • Zeik56

      Unfortunately for you, she’s still just an  announcer in this game.

  • dahuuuundge

    And then we’ll have countless DLC characters and enhanced remake released a few monthes after. I’ll pass on this on.

    • http://twitter.com/ShinAnt Anthony Carl

      Oh joy, What glorious site did you see that from? You witty fellow you. Getting sick of seeing this comment whenever a fighting game is mentioned. There our other genres that are MUCH worse about DLC and addons. Take that crap negativity you have elsewhere.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Wayne-LaBranch/100002132711844 Wayne LaBranch

        He does have a point but i doubt they do that for this game and it would be nice to have some DLCs for this…maybe for other characters who aren’t in this, like Raidou and Demifiend

    • Zeik56

      I’d honestly be surprised if it actually got DLC characters, much less ongoing updates. This seems like the type of thing that took a miracle to even happen once, it would be extraordinary if it actually went farther than a single release.

  • http://twitter.com/ShinAnt Anthony Carl

    That combo Chie linked into Gods Hand, that made me smile.

  • jotun_of_greed
  • heartless141

    for once, i’m supporting DLCs, it’s just, if ever there was a Vita version, please make the DLC compatible for both like Trollono did please :P

  • TWILTHERO

    Game’s looking great so far. Gonna be maining Brotag and Yukiko. :3

    • Fitzkrieg

      I will main Kanji Tatsumi. Period.

      Grappler with zoning tools, anti-air grabs (a la Potemkin and Tager), the ability to air-dash, AND Air to ground grabs as well as the obligatory Super grab with Invincibility frames?

      Sign me right the hell up.

      That’s not even going into how awesome a character he is, personality-wise and folding chair-wise.

    • SuigetsuHiramura

      Gonna be maining Yosuke more than likely :)

  • Setsu Oh

    at last a BB i can play and like. there is only 2-3 chars i like in the whole roster of bb. this time, a really good char designer helps.

    • Gatchaman1

      You mean an Arc System game you can play and like (besides Guilty Gear). For me, there was also Hokuto no Ken but thats for PS2 & Arcade only. Shame they didn’t bring it to PSN or something.
      Also..Sengoku Basara X

      And back in the day Atlus had Groove on Fight for Sega Saturn *great game*

      • http://twitter.com/#!/Leafy_Cam Leafhopper

        Didn’t Atlus make all the Power Instinct games?

        • mikanko

          Think they’ve only ever published them.  Noise Factory is the developer.  Last one was in 2009 with no console release. 

  • Fitzkrieg

    A-HA!

    It looks like when your character is down to 30% HP, your meter cap gets raised to 150 and you’re GIVEN 50 meter.

    Comeback Kanji is gonna be awesome if his 720-grab has damage comparable to Tagers.

    It would also seem that bursting reduces your Burst Gauge to just a ‘B’ gauge, which fills similarly to your super meter (taking and receiving hits). You get your Burst back when either that gauge fills or a new round starts.

    Other observations:
    -You can follow-up Pirouette stun with an All-Out Attack
    -Rapid Cancels exist (they’re called One More)
    -There seems to be a universal mechanic that adds a small blue portion to your HP bar, which your HP will slowly recover to (it can also be used to go over 100% HP, but will slowly decrease back to 100% if is used to do so). This mechanic does not seem to have a meter cost and multiple uses appear to stack.
    -Counters/Fatal Counters are back, as are the ‘you guarded incorrectly’ exclamation points from BlazBlue.
    -The throw tech window is reduced from BBCS.

    That’s all I’ve got for now. I THINK the blue meter below the HP bar is like a Guard Primer system, but I haven’t confirmed this.

    • JustThisOne

      Wow. Observant. *claps*

    • mikanko

      The gauge below your lifebar is the persona’s meter.  If it goes empty you can’t burst or use your persona.  Personas take dmg when you get hit with them out.

      Also dunno if it’s a universal mechanic, Yukiko has dia, but she’s the only character listed with it in her move list.

      There is a universal action that acts as an invincible move and temporarily drains health though, and it can slowly come back.

      http://p-atlus.jp/kouhou/TGS_p4u.jpg offers a more complete explanation but I can only understand part of it. Someone linked a rough translation of it on dustloop, somewheres.

      • Fitzkrieg

        The invincible move is probably what I observed, then.

        Thanks for clearing up the blue bar thing.

    • Zeik56

      From what I’ve gathered the meter under your life is basically your Persona gauge and works much like the Stand gauge in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. If you or your opponents Persona is hit while it’s out you lose one bar on the gauge. If you lose all 4 bars you can’t summon your Persona for a period of time until the meter recharges. Though unlike Jojo it doesn’t seem you can recharge the gauge before it runs out.

  • SuigetsuHiramura

    Looking pretty awesome XD  I wonder how similiar the consol version will be to the arcade version.

  • Kuza21

    Here are some Hi-Def vids for you guys: 

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwNkns9FQqUand http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6avbv8vt_mo

    I. CAN’T. WAITTTTT!

  • Bentan

    dayumm this game seems like a spiritual successor to jojo

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/Kamek20xxExtra?feature=mhee Michael Stevens

    This looks so much fun! Doesn’t this remind anyone of Aquapazza a little?

  • OverlordFuka

    Clearly we need Rise in here so she can null everyone’s attacks with her special ability!

    Oh wow this looks like so much fun! Not just Persona 4 guys, but Persona 3 as well…We need Minato/Minako as unlockable content. =P I’m actually not all that great at fighting games but for THIS I will learn. XD

  • http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/recognition/21421.html?type=4 Kashell

    It’s like the game is channeling Jojo. Loving.

  • PrinceHeir

    i never knew a Persona fighting game would fit sooo perfectly :P

    the music in the 2nd video feels familiar.

    is it from granrodeo?????

  • Shousen

    So..what is it, Guilty Gear with a persona skin? Chie’s moves look almost if not exactly like Jam’s..  

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